Hey there,
It’s Shivam here.
Today marks an important day in my life.
I’m finally ready to hit you with the First Edition of my LearnAWS Weekly newsletter.
From now on, you can expect AWS tips every Saturday.
Insider news on AWS:
- AWS India customers can now use UPI to make payments
- LLRT is being continuously developed (I’m using it in prod already)
What I did with AWS this week:
- Tried out Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration to find out which region was the fastest for me
- Migrated a S3 bucket for a client from Singapore to Cape Town
- Named my variable
status, then found out ‘twas a DynamoDB reserved keyword. Here’s my sneaky fix.
AWS isn’t expensive.
I don’t know why people say AWS is expensive.
I mean, look what I’ve been getting for free, every month:
For some services like Amazon SQS you’ll see that I’ll probably be going over the AWS Free Tier usage limit by the end of this month.
(wherever Forecasted Usage > AWS Free Tier)
I stayed within the Free Tier on these services
And for some AWS services, there’s no way I’ll ever go over the AWS Free Tier limit ⟶
I can basically make AWS work for me, for almost free.
Cutting costs - not corners
My cost has gone down since the last month.
I use Amazon KMS to store all my security tokens (more on that later), and Amazon Route53 for my websites’ DNS.
KMS is for decrypt, as coffee is for decaf.
Disclaimer: Tax is not an AWS service.
Why do I use Amazon WorkMail?
It’s like Google Workspace, but with Amazon WorkMail?
I can set up a Lambda trigger for a user, so that I can acknowledge their submission from a no-reply email.
Heck, I can even send all of my emails to Amazon S3 bucket to analyse them.
Complete bang for my buck.
My emails might sound like a AWS ad.
But they’re not.
All the views are my own, and they come from my experience of using AWS everyday for 3 years.
As a developer, I’m not perfect.
But I’m confident and I do everything to keep my clients happy.
Serverless Horrors
While taking a typical developer’s break by scrolling other developer posts on Twitter (X), I stumbled upon this website - ServerlessHorrors.
On this website, there are 6 actual horror stories of how poor, broke developers ended up with $100,000 cloud bills, which they’ll never be able to pay off, even if they sold off their … laptops.
Here’s my take on how foolish the developers were, the horrors could’ve been avoided.
